1. Too bad: We have been deeply intimidated by the magnitude of the human rights (HR) problem. Is it that we have imprisoned ourselves within our own skepticism, resignation and…
Andrea Cornwall, Karen Brock (2004) https://www.academia.edu/2636098/What_do_Buzzwords_do_for_Development_Policy?email_work_card=view-paper . 1. The SDGs (MDGs in the original paper) serve as a good example of the ‘extravagance in promising future benefits’. It represents a…
-Are we going to allow the status-quo to continue playing itself out, i.e., continue playing “the game of the status-quo?” What three social reformers had to say: How relevant today?…
-Take care of the quality of life and the quantity will take care of itself. (Cicely Williams) Start by thinking: Health is an animal condition, but most of our ill-health…
1. As I have said repeatedly, human rights (HR) represent ethical positions. A right, however, does not mean the same in the HR system as applied as it does in…
-It is here fitting to paraphrase the adage of seeing the trees and not the forest. As the world tries to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), most practitioners do…
– “Where, after all, do universal human rights (HR) begin? In small places, close to home –so close and so small that they cannot be seen on any maps of…
-Yes, poverty has a spider web of causes; we need to get at the spider that builds the web. (Nancy Krieger) -Money has rained on jungles and deserts for 50…
-Reality has three levels: objective, subjective and inter-subjective. The first is bulletproof, the second disappears when the person that believes in it passes, and the third one persists for centuries…
1. What I have to say here pertains to a series of serious questions building up on me as an experienced human rights activist over the last 25 years. The…